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THE NEWBERO QRAPHIC, September 8, 1010 THE CITY FARMER. Hie Theerlee Were All Right, but He Flunked on Praetiee. YOUNG It’s time for you to be preparing to enter College this Fai Remember that Knowledge Is Power Every Young Man and Woman in this vicinity should avail_ -themselves of the privilege of higher education. ATTEN D to this important matter before it is Too Late* This Oppor tunity is provided at your own door through PACIFIC •Farming'on paper looks pretty •asy,” observed the fat person with the red tie, “hut when it comes to digging a living out of the soil that’s an entirely different matter. IVe tried it. 1 know. Had tha farming craxe all my life, you .know, and wouldn't be satisfied until I put my theories ta a ^tactical test For many yeats I had managed a big farm f^om a comfortable room in a city flat—that is, 1 had it all down in black and white just how to run that quarter section which some day 1 intended to own. Why, 1 could raise more hogs from that easy chair of mine in the city than I knew what to do with, and it real ly seemed a shame to take the money. “But when I finally shook the city dust from my shoes and settled on my piece of land out in Kansas things began to assume a different color. Most of mv rural neighbors had their soiled assortment of pigs all right, but none of them—my neighbors—seemed to be rolling in wealth at that. You see, I hadn’t counted on the ups and downs of the market, and 1 hadn’t figured on epidemics of hog cholera either. Kgs are a delicate sort of critters, although you can’t tell it by looking at them. “Another fact I learned: I was green—very green—and seemed to have a cheerful knack of doing ev erything wrong just when some body was looking. There was one old codger in particular who made me nervous. His name was Brown, and he constantly hovered about my premises, regarding my doings with mingled awe and disapproval. He had plenty of work on his own farm, but he firmly insisted on stepping over several times a day to keep me from making mistakes. But when crop time came my counselor simply had to tear himself away. I had purchased a sort of combina tion plow and corn planter^ and old Brown gate me an unwritten-vol ume of instructions before he left«. I was a full fledged farmer at last. My sakes, but that plow did fine work! And every now and then 1 would stop and give thej)lade a professional scouring with a wood en paudle and then take a long look at the furrows, which seemed to reach miles in the distance. I was absurdly proud of those fur rows and felt real tickled when 1 saw old Brown stumbling over the clods to meet me. - “ ‘Pretty decent furrows for a city fellow,’ he cautiously admitted. And then he asked how she was scouring—meaning the plow, you know. Next he squatted to the ground and thrust his hand, into the furrow as if searching for some thing, and 1 looked on in superior silence. The old chap couldn’t find what he wanted in the first row, so he moved to the next two in suc cession and went through the same process. I was mystified. Sudden ly he stood up and crumbled the fresh earth from his hands. ‘Son ny,’ he drawled, with a drv smile, ‘you’re a corker. Here you’ve been plowin’ all mornin’ for nothin’. Where’s your corn ?’ “The awful truth dawned on me. I had neglected to fill my seed box.” —Kansas City Star. W . J. R E A G A N , Acting Prest. NEW BERG, OREGON to to merit your affords. Nowhere will you find a more complete line of Drugs, Chemicals, Toilet Articles, Sundries, Etc.. O u r P rescription D epartm ent represents the best In quality and skill, a registered pharmacist always in charge. Our prices will get your business and our methods will hold your trade. Try a cool, refreshing drink at our 20th Century soda fountain. L y rm B . F e fg u s o fi P r o s c r i p t io n Drugtfglst lu e A e e e e r l* f . H. C s U e S H A Fiaat National Bank BuHding - - - Newberg, Oregon We have just received a good stock of Apple Boxes Get your supply now of The Chas. K. Spaulding Log. Go. PRICES REDUCED All Ladies’ Waists, 25 per cent off. Children’s Dresses, 25 per cent. off. Lawns, Summer Silks, and Dimities: 50e per yard, now 38c it tt 40c u 32c it it tt 35c 28c it it tt 30c 23c it it tt 25c 19c 20c it it it 1 loc 15c it it it 12c it it 10c it 8c m - N ash & F in ley T h e S t e m * o f t h s P r ic k ly P ear. In most plants, to put it simply, the leaves are the mouths and stom achs of the organism. Their thin and flattened blades are spread out horizontally in a wide expanse, cov ered with tiny throats and lips which suck in carbonic acid from the surrounding air and disintegrate it in their own cells under the in fluence of sunlight. In the prickly pears, on the contrary, it is the flat tened stem and branches which un dertake this essential operation in the life of the plant—the sucking in of carbon and giving out of oxy gen, which are to the vegetable ex actly what the eating and digesting of food are to the animal organism. In their old age, however, the stems of the prickly pear display their true character by becoming woody in texture and losing their articu lated, leaflike appearance. Doooptivo. N ew Building, N e w Students, New En thusiasm. For inform ation address Ota* dne Ambition •p F J S ■ pared no pains to supply our customers with the beet the market 1$ The trained ostrich disconcerted its exhibitor at a London music hall by continually endeavoring to break sway from all restraint and to climb over the footlights into the orches tra. The widely advertised act came to a sudden end, and the professor emerged from behind the curtain and apologized for the actions of his pet in about these words: “Ly- dies and gentlemen, Hi ham very sorry to disappoint you this heven- ing. We are compelled to cease our hengagement until the management hengages a new orchestra leader. The one at present hemploved ’ere ’as no ’air on top of ’is ’ead, and my bird takes it for a hegg.” SPEND THE SUMMER AT NEWPORT, YAQUINA BAY T he Only Beach in the Pacific Northwest Where'the pretty Water Agates, Moas Agates, Moon stones, Camelians, and Rock Oysters can be found. OU TD O O R SPOR TS OF ALL K IN D S Including Hnnting, Fishing, digi ng Rock Oysters, Boating, Surf Bathing, Riding, Autoing, Canoeing and Dancing. Pure mountain water and the best of food at low prices. Fresh Crabs, Clams, Oysters, Fish pnd Vegetables of all kinds daily. IDEAL CAMPING GROUNDS, with strict sanitary regulations, at nomi nal cost. 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